Snuff Use, Smoking, Periodontitis and Mortality: 30-year Cohort Study From Sweden

University of Helsinki

Status: Completed

Conditions: Periodontitis; Tobacco Use

Treatments: Behavioral: Qestinnaires

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03918902

00100

Details and patient eligibility

About

Smoking and dual using associated with poor periodontal health.

Full description

Aim: To investigate how snuff use, smoking and risk behaviour affect periodontal health and mortality in a Swedish cohort, hypothesizing that they indeed have a poor impact and increase the risk of death.

Material and methods: Study cohort of 1080 subjects aged 31 to 40 years (528 men and 552 women) from Stockholm area was clinically examined in 1985 and followed for mortality until 2015. Associations between periodontal health parameters, snuff use, smoking and age of death were analysed by classifying all subjects into four groups: "dual-users" (current snuffers and current smokers); "pure snuffers" (current non-smoking snuffers); "pure smokers" (current non-snuffing smokers) and "non-users" (non-snuffers, non-smokers). SPSS was used for analyses.

Enrollment: 1,080 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 31 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• In 1985-1986 a sample was selected from the registry file of all inhabitants of the Stockholm area, of people born on the 20th of any month from 1945 to 1954.The sample comprised 3200 people. They were informed about the purpose of the study and called for clinical investigation. 1681 (52.5%) individuals, 840 men and 841 women, participated in the study. Subjects had different socio-economic and health backgrounds.

Exclusion criteria

• Other people. Any disease was not an exclusion criteria.